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Was FALLINLOVE2NITE a radio hit? I don't listen to terrestrial radio anymore so I don't really follow what the hits are. But FALLINLOVE2NITE seems like the kind of song that would've done well on UK radio as dance music charts there more than it does here in the USA. Was it ever released as a single in the UK? Paisley Park is in your heart
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Prince's last TOP 40 hit on the U.S. BillBoard charts was Betcha By Golly Wow, which hit #31.
That was his last TOP 40 hit, in 1996. | |
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feeluupp said: no.
Prince's last TOP 40 hit on the U.S. BillBoard charts was Betcha By Golly Wow, which hit #31.
That was his last TOP 40 hit, in 1996. I thought Black Sweat did well. I haven't looked up any specific figures, I just remember hearing it quite a bit around the time it was released. | |
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feeluupp said: no.
Prince's last TOP 40 hit on the U.S. BillBoard charts was Betcha By Golly Wow, which hit #31.
That was his last TOP 40 hit, in 1996. I guess I was thinking more UK radio than Billboard charts. US radio hasn't ever really been big on dance music. [Edited 7/20/16 9:06am] Paisley Park is in your heart
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No. Landed at #60 on Bill Board 100.
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feeluupp said:
No. Landed at #60 on Bill Board 100.
Cool, thanks. There was a time that it felt like every time I put the radio on, Black Sweat was on. | |
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rogifan said: I don't listen to terrestrial radio anymore so I don't really follow what the hits are. But FALLINLOVE2NITE seems like the kind of song that would've done well on UK radio as dance music charts there more than it does here in the USA. Was it ever released as a single in the UK? It got quite a lot of airplay on UK's BBC Radio 2, I don't think you could call it a hit though | |
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It did relatively well on radio in comparison to anything else he released since 3121. |
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moderatorIt got onto the A list on radio 2 for about 2 months which is 20 times a week. She Believed in Fairytales and Princes, He Believed the voices coming from his stereo
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bigd74 said: It got onto the A list on radio 2 for about 2 months which is 20 times a week. Ok that's cool. I actually kind of like the song. But then I always liked some of the dance stuff that made it on UK radio in the 2000s. Better than most of the garbage played on US radio stations. Hence why I stopped listening, also because I hate that iHeart basically controls everything and doesn't give a crap about diverse music. Paisley Park is in your heart
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Some are mixing up the various Billboard charts. "Betcha By Golly" missed the Hot 100 altogether. The #31 peak was on Hot 100 Airplay. |
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"Betcha By Golly Wow" only made the "airplay" top 40 in '96. It was late '98 before promo-only singles were qualified to make the Hot 100 based on radio play alone. So Prince's last top 40 before "1999" re-entered in '99 at #40 and a number of songs re-entered the chart after his death was "I Hate U," which hit #12, but only stayed 5 weeks in the top 40 because its pop radio airplay was weak (topping at #46 - I have a Billboard book).
The mid-90s was such a weird time for the charts because there wasn't a lot of "pop" music actually getting popular with the rise of alternative and hip-hop formats. It wasn't like the '80s when the same station would play ZZ Top and Lionel Richie and Van Halen and Prince, etc. Things got very segmented in the '90s, and it took awhile for Billboard to figure out how to catch up with the changes.
Also, many labels quit producing singles, only issuing promos to radio stations (and forcing many of us to shell out $18 for a CD just to get a single song we wanted). Therefore, the Hot 100 didn't truly reflect what was popular for awhile there. Megahits like "Don't Speak," "Iris," and "Killin Me Softly," just to name a few, never officially charted outside of airplay.
Meanwhile, a lot of hip-hop singles were actually released commercially, so many of those songs reached the top 10 based mostly on sales, without pop radio airplay. Back then, the Hot 100 didn't count R&B airplay toward this chart.
R&B radio in the mid-to-late '90s was very much about laidback jams (think of the change between TLC's first and second albums), so I think that led Prince to release more slower grooves as first singles. Had "Letitgo" been a little catchier, it would have likely climbed higher than #31 (his second to last Top 40), as it definitely had the sound of the time.
A lot of the beauty of Prince's '80s hits is that many defied any formula of what would work on the radio ("When Doves Cry," "Kiss," "Alphabet Street"), but stations gave them a shot because Prince was hot and his genious was in full effect.
In hindsight, I'm a little baffled that Prince was unable to conjure a big hit slow jam in the last half of the '90s. In some sort of edited form, "Shhh," might have done pretty well, though it's not a personal favorite. "Somebody's Somebody" (issued to R&B radio) didn't have an appealing hook to my ears.
I remember when Prince was promoting Emancipation in an interview and rather defensively asked the reporter something like, "How many hits do you hear?" After I listened to it, I was sadly like, "Um, none?" Maybe if EMI had lived long enough to promote "Face Down." [Edited 7/21/16 9:02am] |
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This would have been a sizeable hit for him sales wise if it had been available when the New Girl episode aired. | |
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Yeah, I remember thinking the same thing. I was like 'here we go again'. I guess it was just another down side of being without a major record label. | |
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